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BrainStuff Classics: What Is the Mandela Effect?

BrainStuff

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Technology, Natural Sciences

3.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When many people share a false memory, that's the Mandela Effect in action -- but how does it happen? Learn how our individual brains misremember stuff and how false memories can spread in this classic episode of BrainStuff.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.1

So what happened to Chappaquittic?

0:07.2

Well, it really depends on who you talk to.

0:09.2

There are many versions of what happened in 1969

0:11.7

when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond.

0:15.2

And left a woman behind to drown.

0:18.7

Chappaquittic is a story of a tragic death

0:20.7

and how the Kennedy machine took control.

0:23.4

Every week, we go behind the headlines

0:25.1

and beyond the drama of America's royal family.

0:28.3

Listen to United States of Kennedys

0:30.1

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,

0:32.6

or wherever you get your podcast.

0:37.3

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:39.4

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:43.4

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:49.0

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

0:54.8

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

1:00.5

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

1:04.7

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

1:08.4

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used,

1:14.3

let alone given any of the details about how it works.

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